Level -> RE: Ex-general: Iraq a "nightmare" for US (10/13/2007 11:29:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: philosophy ..what i feel most sad about here, is that those of us who were against the idea of Iraq2 from the beginning predicted all of this mess from minute one. We were reviled by many as unpatriotic or naiive or even as traitors. Now that we have been proven correct by events, we are accused of demanding 20/20 hindsight. The mess is Iraq didn't need any hindsight to be predicted.......it was obvious to anyone who treats the utterences of governments in a skeptical way, it was obvious to anyone who reads history, it was obvious......all too obvious........ I don't know about that, phil. I thought the odds of WMDs being found there were quite high, as did Clinton, Gore, and some of our allies around the world. The no-fly zone/embargo strategy didn't seem to be working, with numerous deaths resulting from it. I do think that many people that claim it was "obvious" that there was no reason to go there are engaging in Monday morning quarterbacking (using hindsight, for you non-American football fans [:D]), or that they, quite frankly, have their head shoved so far up their ass, as to be blind to the possibility of anyone that is conservative, possesses anything of value to say. These "analists" automatically oppose anything a conservative may say, they immediately claim they're wrong, so, on the occasions that the conservatives are wrong, the analists are right, by default, if nothing else. And no, you would not be one that I'm referring to, my friend.
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